[squeak-dev] The Trunk: Environments-topa.56.mcz

Frank Shearar frank.shearar at gmail.com
Thu Jan 22 08:30:02 UTC 2015


On 22 January 2015 at 08:25, Tobias Pape <Das.Linux at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> On 22.01.2015, at 09:22, Frank Shearar <frank.shearar at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On 21 January 2015 at 23:48,  <commits at source.squeak.org> wrote:
>>> Tobias Pape uploaded a new version of Environments to project The Trunk:
>>> http://source.squeak.org/trunk/Environments-topa.56.mcz
>>>
>>> ==================== Summary ====================
>>>
>>> Name: Environments-topa.56
>>> Author: topa
>>> Time: 22 January 2015, 12:48:30.677 am
>>> UUID: e5cad590-2869-4f02-84ac-482952779d06
>>> Ancestors: Environments-topa.55
>>>
>>> Provide more Dictionary protocol for exisiting users of Smalltalk globals.
>>
>> If it addresses, in an expedient way, existing problems, then fine.
>> But the Environments work was explicitly trying to move _away_ from
>> the Dictionary protocols. Hence why the existing Dictionary-like
>> methods are in the "emulating" category.
>
> Refactoring-Core is using this API.

Obviously making the rest of the world move to the Environments API is
the _right_ thing to do, if it's manipulating environmental stuff, but
in the meantime, +1 to this addition :)

frank

> Best
>         -Tobias
>


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